"Serge Auckland"


I'm referring to the common Hi-Fi practice of taking a cartridge, which,
agreed is normally floating, into an unbalanced input. The floating
cartridge is also usually pretty well balanced,


** Utterly meaningless drivel - the correct term is " floating ".
Balancing infers differential mode amplification, twisted pair cables etc,
etc.


Moving Magnets may not be quite so well balanced as the physical size of
the coils will often make one end of coils nearer the screening can than
the other, but nevertheless, they can be considered as balanced, floating
devices for practical purposes.


** Utterly meaningless drivel - the correct term is " floating ".
Balancing infers differential mode amplification, twisted pair cables etc,
etc.


I fully agree that balance doesn't necessarily give better hi-fi, but as
with microphone circuits, it's good practice to balance low-level signals
where this is possible.


** More pseudo religious, anti-scientific drivel.

Par for the course for this trolling pommy ******.


Given that a cartridge is essentially a balanced device,


** Utterly meaningless drivel - the correct term is " floating ".
Balancing infers differential mode amplification, twisted pair cables etc,
etc.


I would have thought that the High-End Audiophool community would have
latched on to balanced phono circuits,

** Not even possible - for the damn obvious reasons that normal tone arm
leads preclude it.


rather than the rather less beneficial balanced CD inputs, or pre-power
amp links. It goes to show that the HEAP community hasn't the first idea
of engineering principles.


** Nor have utter ****wits like YOU - pal.




...... Phil